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Shame and nakedness
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We ate of the tree of knowledge approximately 6000 years ago, which told us we were naked.
Sheesh, you guys need to brush up on your Genesis.
Nemo me impune lacessit.
That story doesn't really explain why it's wrong, though. If it was, why were they naked in the first place?
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html 
Because when right and wrong are defined by the whims of a single, prudish superdictator, it became wrong because God said so.
 RE: Shame and nakedness
January 2, 2014 at 12:06 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2014 at 12:06 am by Angrboda.)
I suspect it's one of many social constructs that evolved to encourage exclusivity of sexual partnering, which itself is a mechanism for improving the efficiency of transmission of desirable traits, as well as an adaptation to living at higher latitudes and in variable climes. In short, nakedness, shame, privacy, exclusivity, and so on, are likely evolved psychological mechanisms which ultimately have survival value for our species. I've got a book on evolutionary psychology somewhere around, I'll see if it says anything about it. ![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zf86M5L7/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg)  RE: Shame and nakedness
January 2, 2014 at 12:10 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2014 at 12:13 am by bennyboy.)
(January 1, 2014 at 9:57 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Well I don't know what everybody else's hangup is, but the only reason I cover up my johnson is so I won't step on it.Oh, wow. I didn't know your legs were only three inches long!  (January 1, 2014 at 10:43 pm)Chad32 Wrote: That story doesn't really explain why it's wrong, though. If it was, why were they naked in the first place?I'm pretty sure that Adam and Eve is a puberty myth. Eve discovers her sexuality first, because girls develop earlier. Then she seduces some poor schmoe. That accords well with western culture today: people let their 5 year-old kids run naked at the beach or something. 13 year-old daughter, not so much.
Quite a few people see it as a metaphor for puberty. Though that doesn't make much sense either, since if he didn't want Humans to breed, why make us breedable, and why would it be wrong?
The whole story is kind of messed up, and it isn't the only one in the OT.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html |
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